Speaker
Zachary Rowan
(CUNY Baruch)
Description
The characterization of energy in the quark gluon plasma is facilitated by measurements of modifications to the observed jet fragmentation. A favorable channel of study relies on direct photons created in the initial parton interactions of heavy ion collisions. Such a photon traverses the created medium unscathed and grants us a proxy for the transverse momentum of an away side jet. PHENIX Au+Au data recorded at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV during RHIC run 14 benefit from the background rejection capability of the silicon vertex detector, enabling the extraction of a higher purity hadron signal. This advantage, combined with a larger integrated luminosity, allows previous PHENIX measurements of fragmentation functions to be extended to greater jet energies. This poster will describe the status of the analysis of direct photon hadron correlations with the new data set.
| On behalf of collaboration: | PHENIX |
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Primary author
Zachary Rowan
(CUNY Baruch)
